It takes the average reader 5 hours and 15 minutes to read The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson by Harry J. Elam
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Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture...
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson by Harry J. Elam is 307 pages long, and a total of 78,899 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 11 minutes to read The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson aloud.
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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